Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavi…

Did the king keep his word or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: keep, word · To what, where: word

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1999 «Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavin mends the goose and the king pays with his land» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 keep	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the king	king's word					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	word		king						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he went back on it and kept the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	he			it			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	keep	past	he not said here	the land					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, as true as the sun rising, he gave the saint every acre the goose flew over

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rising	obl
8	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 true	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 saint	det
13	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 acre	det
15	acre	acre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 goose	det
17	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flew	nsubj
18	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	parataxis
19	over	over	ADV	_	18 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund			as the sun	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	he	the saint		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent saint=Recipient acre=Theme
3	fly over	past	the goose		over property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the king swore by the sun and then broke every promise he had ever made to anyone

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swore	nsubj
5	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swore	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 broke	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 broke	advmod
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swore	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 promise	det
13	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 made	advmod
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 promise	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 anyone	case
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	the king			by the sun	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	break	past	the king not said here	every promise	then	to anyone result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent promise=Patient to anyone=Result
3	make	past · perfect	king	every promise not said here	ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, as true as the sun, he gave it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	sun					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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